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Redeemer, and able to do all that she asks of him. The Saviour is
satisfied, he has tested her confidence in him, and he now grants her
request and finishes the lesson to his disciples. Turning to her with a
countenance of pity and love, he says, “O woman, great is thy faith.
Be it unto thee even as thou wilt.” From that hour the daughter became
whole, and the demon troubled her no more. The woman departed
acknowledging her Saviour, and happy in the granting of her prayer.
This was the only miracle that Jesus wrought while on this journey.
It was for the performance of this very act that he went into the coast
of Tyre and Sidon. He wished to relieve the afflicted woman, and at
the same time to leave an example, in this work of mercy toward one
of a despised people, for the benefit of his disciples when he should
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be no longer with them. He wished to lead them from their Jewish
exclusiveness to be interested in working for others besides their own
people. This act of Christ opened their minds more fully to the labor
that lay before them among the Gentiles. Afterward, when the Jews
turned still more persistently from the disciples because they declared
Jesus to be the Saviour of the world, and when the partition wall
between Jew and Gentile was broken down by the death of Christ, this
lesson, and similar ones which pointed to a gospel work unrestricted
by custom or nationality, brought a powerful influence to bear upon
the representatives of Christ in directing their labors.
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